<p> THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION Course Outline Part I</p><p>Programme Title : Bachelor of Education (Honours) (English Language) (Five-year Full-time) Primary Bachelor of Education (Honours) (English Language) (Five-year Full-time) Secondary Course Title : Contemporary Literatures in English Course code : ENG 3275 Department : Literature and Cultural Studies Credit Points : 3 Contact Hours : 39 Pre-requisite(s) : Approaching English Literature Literature in Context Medium of Instruction: English Level : 3 For Second Major (English Language): Elective Course (pre-requisite: ENG1327 Approaching English Literature) For Minor (English Language): Available (pre-requisite: ENG1327 Approaching English Literature) ______Part II</p><p>1. Synopsis: This course gives students opportunities to read and appreciate selected works of contemporary literature written in English. Students will study texts for detailed meaning and, drawing on skills obtained in the pre-requisite courses, enhance their capacity for appropriate interpretation and response. Texts will be chosen from a wide range of genres, including poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, films and other multi-media works. Text selection is subject to the instructor’s expertise.</p><p>2. Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs): Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:</p><p>CILO1 critically analyse and appreciate English prose, verse, films and multi-media works; [PILO2 (SK2)]</p><p>CILO2 demonstrate a better analytical understanding of the socio-cultural and political contexts of new literatures in English. (ESLOs2 & 4)</p><p>CILO3 identify and analyze the literary conventions in the literary texts studied. (ESLOs2 & 3)</p><p>CILO4 critically analyze a range of texts dealing with issues of “globalization”, “transnationalism”, “gender and migration”, “multiculturalism”, “diaspora” and “hybridity” (ESLOs3 & 4)</p><p>CILO5 integrate the “macro” analysis of the literary text with micro textual analysis. (ESLOs2 & 4)</p><p>3. Course Intended Language Learning Outcomes (CILLOs): Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:</p><p>CILLO1use the appropriate literary vocabulary to articulate their critiques on literary or multi-media texts [PILO2 (SK2) &PILO3 (SK3)].</p><p>4. Content, CILOs and Teaching & Learning Activities Course Content CILOs/ Suggested Teaching CILLOs & Learning Activities</p><p>Contemporary Asian American writing, Hong CILO1,2, 4 Lecture, seminar, Kong writing in English, traditional and CILLO group work, readings postmodern poetry forms, flash fiction, 1 experimental creative writing, multiculturalism (articles), and in literature and films, queer literature students’ PPT presentations The new literary marketplace: Genres and CILO2 & 4 literary techniques in new literatures in English CILLO1</p><p>The implications of race, class and gender in CILO1, 2, 3 & 4 new literatures in English CILLO1</p><p>Analyzing main themes of new literatures in CILO3 & 5 English such as the question of who is the CILLO “Other”, the politics of being woman and a 1 migrant, identity and (not) belonging, homelessness, nationalism and etc.</p><p>5. Assessment Assessment Tasks Weighting (%) CILOs/CILLOs</p><p> a. End-of-term individual written essay 50 CILO1,2,3,4,&5</p><p>(1500 words) CILLO1 b. Group task: students work in groups to 30 CILO1,2,3,4,&5 present a creative interpretation of a text c. Short in-class writing tasks/Reading 20 CILO1,2,3,4,&5</p><p> response journals CILLO1</p><p>6. Required Text(s) A reading pack will be provided by instructor</p><p>7. Recommended Readings Bozzini, G.R. & Leenerts, C.A. (2001) Literature without borders: literature in English for student writers. Upper Saddle River N.J.: Prentice Hall O'Reilly, C. (2001) Post-colonial Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Rushdie, S. (1996) East, West: stories. New York: Vintage International Xu Xi & Ingham, M. (Eds). (2003) City Voices: Hong Kong writing in English, 1945 to the present. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press Akpan, U. (2008). Say you’re one of them. London: Back Bay Books. Bakhtin, M. (1981). The dialogic imagination. Austin: The University of Texas Press. Batchelor, D. (Ed.) (2000). Three plays by Asian Australian. Australia: QUT Publishing. Booth, W. (1983). The rhetoric of fiction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Eagleton, T. (1978). Criticism and ideology. London: Verso. Eoyang, E. C. (2007). Two-way mirrors: Cross-cultural studies in glocalization. Lanham, Md: Lexington. Ha, J. (2000). Waiting. London: Vintage. Hamid, M. (2007). The reluctant fundamentalist. London: Penguin. Ho, M. (1986). Rice without rain. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish. Hosseini, K. (2003). The kite runner. New York: Penguin. Ishiguro, K. (1982). A pale view of hills. London: Faber and Faber. Lim, S. G. (2006). Sister swing. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish. Murakami, H. (2003). Norwegian wood. London: Vintage. Said, E. (1979). Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books. Saussy, H. (ed). (2006). Comparative literature in an age of globalization. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press. Sim, W. (2006). Globalization and dislocation in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press. Teo, H. G. (2000). Love and vertigo. Australia : Allen & Unwin. Trenka, J. (2009). Fugitive visions: An adoptee’s return to Korea. New York: Graywolf Press. Walder, D. (Ed.) (2004). Literature in the modern world: Critical essays and documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</p><p>8. Related Web Resources Nil</p><p>9. Related Journals ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature Commonwealth Literature Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Journal of Postcolonial Writing Postcolonial Studies Postcolonial Text South Asian Review</p>